Example Sentences

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Since the neutrino has no electrical charge and is nearly massless, it is undisturbed by electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces, allowing it to travel billions of lightyears through the Universe in its original state.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024

They proposed a liquid-drop model of the nucleus, where subatomic particles were held together by strong nuclear forces.

From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023

This is the question of why gravity is so much weaker than the other three fundamental interactions between particles, namely electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.

From Economist • Jan. 26, 2017

Both the weak and strong nuclear forces differ from the first two forces in that they act only over very small distances—those comparable to the size of an atomic nucleus or less.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

They do so via electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.

From Economist • Dec. 14, 2011